Sobre el pájaro y la red (About the bird and the net)Julia Huete
From May 31 to July 31

"I usually work with abstraction when painting and
drawing by using diverse techniques , from collage to embroidery; techniques I
apply to increase the expressiveness of the pieces. My work is defined by
simple compositions in which aspects as the relation of balance between
compositional weights, the formal lyric and the poetic of the materials are the
means and center of the message.

Using the bird as an aesthetic reference, the title
of the exhibition evokes the connection between background and figure. The bird
refers to the organic and dynamic forms I usually work with and which,
developed in a process between order and chance, contrast with grids and
fabrics that bind the forms and contain them: hence the net. This title comes
from a set of essays by José Ángel Valente where he reflects on the poetic
language and its limits using the bird as a simile to describe the essentiality
of the word in mystical experiences. This idea of essentiality is present in
the formal reduction and in the use I make of the simple units. Thus, through
different types of execution and finish, is how several materials and
techniques come into play to make a poetic essay where notions such as time,
space, movement and formal purity are the focus.”

Julia Huete. May 2018

Julia Huete (Ourense, Spain, 1990) studied
Fine Arts at the University of Vigo – with exchanges at the University of Porto
(Portugal) and Guadalajara, Jalisco (Mexico) – and a Master's degree in
Advertising Art Direction.

Her work has been selected in art competitions such as
“Novos Valores” (Pontevedra), at the Auditorium of Galicia Award in Santiago,
in the Isaac Díaz Pardo Plastic Arts Contest or in Ourense’s Council Office.

She has exhibited collectively since 2013 in several
exhibitions in Galicia, at the Kvit Gallery in Copenhagen or in the Centro
Centro in Madrid.